The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-15

the Various Churches Called Meth
odists Under One Head-A Negros
Hand Mutilated in Cotton Gin in
Efingham County-A Sensation at
Grovetown.
GEORGIA.
A 200-pound lump of brown hematite ore
was dug out of the property of H. d. Goth
ran, at Rome, Wednesday.
1t is estimated that the passenger conduc-
tors on the trains between Montgomery and
Macon travel each about 800 miles per
month
Next Tuesday is the time for converting
of Telfair Superior Court, but it is quite
probable that il will be ad iourned, from the
fact that the new court house will not be
ready for use.
The fall meeting of the Episcopalian con-
vocation for the Savannah district will be
held in Brunswick on Oct 10 and 20. Rev.
Thomas Boone, rector of Christ church, Sa-
vannah and dean of the convocation, will
preside.
The Crown cotton mill at Dalton is now
crowded to its utmost capacity with orders
from all points of the compass. IL the bust
ness continues to increase as it has during
1887, additional machinery will shortly be
required.
Albany has not quarantined against
Tampa, Fla, in which city yellow fever un-
fortunately prevails as an epidemic, but it
has been deemed wise to prohibit the inn
portation of fish and oysters from that point
into the former city.
Dawson NetCs Would it not be good
idea for the City Council to make an ordi-
nance prohibiting pleasure riding on the
Sabbaths The Sabbath is a day of rest,
and the poor old overworked horses have as
much right to it as the BARRIERS
The first passenger train over the Ameri-
Gus, Preston and Lumpkin railroad came
into Abbeville last Monday night, and was
greeted with cheers by the enthusiastic cltl-
zens. The cuts along the line have been
widened and the roadbed is now in a splen-
did condition, for a new road.
At Waycross one day last week an owl,
always ready for business, attacked a large
number of swallows that had taken up quar-
tiers in the chimney DR.. l.. G. Mattox, at
bonneville, and he kicked up so much noise
as to httract attention, and now DR.. Mat
tox has blink-eyed owl for pet.
Parker, Peacock & Co., of Hawkinsville,
have sold their barrel factory in that place
to a Savannah firm, and it is now under the
management of W. A. Roush, with Bob
Holmes as superintendent and bookkeeper.
The factory is in hourishing condition,
turning out now from l75 to 200 barrels per
day.
A negro in the upper part of bingham
county, while ginning cotton, stopped to
reach for notes under the gin, and by some
carelessness allowed his hand togo too near
the saws, where it was caught, drawn up,
and the arm, as far as the elbow, was liter
ally cut to pieces, besides inflicting several
other severe cuts upon his person.
One day recently Col. T.. s. V. Briant, of
Loganville, went to his well for a bucket of
water, and when he drew it up he was sur
prised TO see an immense spreading adder
snake as thick as his arm, covering the
whole inside of the bucket, with his head
erect, ready for business. The Colonel and
his friends quickly put an end to the mon
ster reptile
Sheriff English, of Greene county, ar
rived at Augusta, Thursday, from Able
vile, 5. c., ON the Augusta and Knoxville
train, accompanied by a negro, George Nc
Duffie, who is charged with having muir
dered Bill Cheney, in Woodville, a small
town in that county, on the night of
Sept H. The crime grew out of the rela-
tionship of the man to woman.
Joe Henry Watson, the negro who has
been in Jail at Albany under Indictment for
arson since last January, was acquitted in
the Superior Court Wednesday There were
two indictments found by the grand jury
one for the Barnes House fire and the other
for the Academy fire. The Indictment upon
WHICH lie WAS Ufleu ana acquitted w eCiDeS-
day was for the Barnes House fire.
The lumber works of A B. Steele, located
at Chauncey, came near being the scene of
a terrible conhagration. One of the lum-
Der dryers took fire and was consumed, with
about IS, 900 or 10000 feet of lumber The
large new saw mill and planning mill are in
close proximity to the dryer, and but
through the untiring efforts of the citizens
of the town they would also have been de-
stroyed.
Fletcher Wright, of Webster county, is
one of the few men in the world who are
walking around with bullets in their heads
Mr.. Wright got his in the late war, and has
kept it as a memento ever since. He occa-
slonally experiences inconvenience from its
shifting about in his head, but never has
any pain from it. Mr.. Wright keeps in
good health, and is one of Webster's most
active and intelligent farmers. 1t is a rare
thing to find man who has lived for over
twenty years with a musket ball in his
head.
Brunswick Advertiser: A young for
eigner, claiming to come here from Savan-
nah, has for the last few days. we learn,
been moving among our shipping and kim
dred circles avowing his intention of con-
trolling the stevedore business of the port,
If not by fair means, then by foul If UNI
successful in speedily gaining possession of
tne CHOICEST sueVedOflng plumS, ne avOWS
his intention to break up the whole business
by working up strikes and other insurrec-
tionary movements among the different
stevedores' gangs, and thus prevent any one
else from pursuing the business.
The killing of the negro John jackson, in
Albany on the night of Sept IT, is still
fresh in the memory of the readers of the
NEWS. The shooting occurred near the
river, and on the morning after the tragedy
the Coroner's inquest failed to ascertain
who the murderer was. But it now begins
to appear that the man who fired the fatal
shot in the dark has been spotted, and that
his name is James Haymon. Haymon lives
in Irwin county, and was in Albany on the
night that John jackson was killed City
Marshal Westbrook has been quietly work
ing on the case ever since the night the
crime was committed, and became so well
satisfied Wednesday that HRymon was the
guilty man that he swore out a warrant for
his arrest
Grovetown, near Augusta, is all astir over
big sensation that has developed within
its quiet precincts during the past few days
Tuesday F. A. Potts was called on early in the
day and notified that he was indicted, and
must appear before the grand jury, then in
session at Appling. Potts came to Grove
town early in September, and took a prom
inent position in the religious revival then